
Phenomenology, Thomism, and The Theology of the Body (Dr. Rob McNamara) | Ep. 388
Pints With Aquinas
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The Only Proper Response to a Person Is Love
The only proper response to a person is love. A negative formulation would be when I act in relation to another, I must remember that he or she has his or her ends. If the actions to be moral, both the end has to be true and we have to coordinate ourselves with respect to that end. So we desire for, I think, as human friendship above and beyond everything. Friendship is the context. We must choose good friendships. And those friendships are the ones that aim at good ends. Not false, merely apparently good ends. Then we've problem.
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